I Believe in Community Colleges by John Brantingham
When I first graduated and started teaching, I thought I’d teach exclusively at universities. There’s nothing wrong with the universities. I have loved teaching there, and I would love teaching there in the future as well, but I wasn’t prepared for what I would encounter at the community college level. I’m a full-time community college professor now, and I love it. I have never encountered a more positive, more intelligent, more focused group of people than I have at Mt. San Antonio College. The students are serious and hard-working. Most importantly most of them are completely without cynicism or ego. I teach creative writing, and my students are far more creative and original here than they ever were at any university I taught. Students come out of our two-year pro...